On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 07:58:13 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jul 20, 2015, at 01:12 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > >Is that a serious question? Why should debian-python, for no good > >reason, break things that work just fine? > > Because it doesn't really work well when you are supporting both Python 2 and > Python 3. For example, if you have the 'foo' namespace with submodules 'bar' > and 'baz', you can't write a foo/__init__.py that supports old-style > namespaces for Python 2 and PEP 420 style namespaces for Python 3 because in > the latter *you can't have an __init__.py at all*. > That's exactly why Debian shouldn't mess with it. If upstream is python3-only, they can remove __init__.py and go PEP420. If not, they can use old-style namespaces on both python versions, and there's no reason for Debian to break that IMO.
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